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> Our weekly peek at a fish in the KU sea.
FAVORITE MUSIC: Alternative pop, but I pretty much listen to anything and everything, so I don't really have a favorite.
YOU MIGHT SPOT ME: At 23rd Street Brewery or going out downtown with my friends.
HOBBIES: I love having fun, being outside and having a good dance sesh before I go out. I like meeting new people, watching my favorite childhood movies and cooking.
TURN-ONS: This sounds cliché, but someone who is nice, tall and has a good smile. He also has to make me laugh. Also, someone who can be my best friend. He should get along well with my friends and I can get a long with his. He shouldn't ignore me when we go out together, but he shouldn't be too clingy. He also has to be a dog person, and preferably have his own dog.
TURN-OFFS: Someone who is self-centered
MAJOR:
Graphic Design
YEAR:
Sophomore
HOMETOWN:
Omaha, Neb.
INTERESTED IN:
Men
and cocky. Someone who changes his mind a lot that drives me insane. A shy guy who doesn't have a lot of friends is a turn-off. I also don't like cigarettes, and facial hair creeps me out.
IDEAL DATE: Something that's not a typical date — not dinner and a movie. I would like a guy to pick something new and exciting for our date. I am a huge sports fan, so going to a basketball or football game would be fun. I am always up for going to a concert, too. I would enjoy those dates as long as my date and I could talk about anything without feeling awkward.
**WHY I'M A CATCH:** I have fun wherever I go and I make the best out of everything. I also get along with anyone and everyone.
AWKWARD DATING MOMENT. One time my mom was half-asleep when my high school boyfriend picked me up for our first date. When she went outside to greet him, she mistook him for my best friend's little brother, so she started asking him personal family questions.
// CAROLINE KRAFT
FAVORITE QUOTE: Love the life you live and live the life you love.
HOW WE MET // MERANDA O'GORMAN & COLIN ROY > All great relationships had to start somewhere.
Meranda O'Gorman and Colin Roy met at a party, but they didn't get to know each other while schmoozing over drinks or playing beer pong.
> All great relationships had to start somewhere.
O'Gorman, Wichita sophomore, and a friend went to Roy's Fourth of July party in 2009. "When we first met, I thought she was very quiet and shy," Roy, Rosehill junior, says of O'Gorman. "But throughout the night we started to talk, and then her friend decided she liked vodka and the bushes at my parents house."
O'Gorman's friend went missing after too many drinks. They found her hooking up with another guest in the bushes. Roy drove the girls home and instantly connected with O'Gorman. "Long story short, we ended up flirting over a bottle of water while watching her friend try to stay alive in the bushes," Roy says.
The couple isn't upset about their friend's
Contributed photo
Helping hand: Meranda O'Gorman met Colin
Roy at a party, where they took care of a
drunken friend together.
belligerency. "Now, nearly a year and a half later, we both look back laughing, knowing that if it wasn't for her drunken stupidity we would have never of met," O'Gorman says.
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BY ALEX GARRISON
The Student Senate finance committee proposed cutting all funding from the required campus fees to four community health services - the Douglas County AIDS Project,
Headquarters, GaDuGi SafeCenter and Willow Domestic Violence Center — on Tuesday.
By Thursday, dozens of students had expressed their disapproval of the measure.
Matthew Blankers, a graduate student in social work from Clearmont,
Calif., and a former senator, printed and distributed 250 fliers promoting students to contact senators. The budget would remove all funding from the Willow Center starting next year and all funding for the
Proposed reallocation of student fees
SEE FUNDING ON PAGE 3A
ARGUMENTS IN BRIEF:
. They say they don't want these services to lose funding but believe they should not be funded through the Student Senate activity fund
Student Senate finance committee:
Plan to set up a taskforce to find ways to fund these services outside the activity fee
Sources: David Cohen, treasurer; Aaron Dollinger, chief of staff
Wants to cut all funding for the Douglas County AIDS Project, Headquarters, GaDuGi SafeCenter and Willow Domestic Violence Center from the student activity fee by fiscal year 2012; funding for these services is currently $2.11 of $11.41 (18 percent of total).
The Douglas County AIDS Project, Headquarters, GaDuGi SafeCenter and Willow Domestic Violence
Center:
- Funding cuts are coming from federal and state levels — even if student contributions are relatively small, every little bit helps, especially in preparation for Gov. Brownback's proposed budget, which cuts state funding to community mental health centers completely
- Wants funding to remain at $2.11 per student, per semester
The self-destruction of the balloon will release the parachute, as it returns to earth. GeoHawk team member Ryan Callihan, a graduate student from Lenexa, said the team would track the vehicle's entire flight, but could not predict the landing exactly.
"We have no idea where it's going to land," he said. "It could land 300 miles downwind or in
Sources: Sarah Terwelp, executive director of the Willow Center; Olivia Burchett, outreach coordinator of DCAP
The balloon will expand in response to the decreasing air pressure as it rises, and the team expects it to pop at about 100,000 feet.
Take a look at the sky on April 8 and you just might see a balloon flying over Lawrence. They call it Project GeoHawk, an assignment in Geography 726, Remote Sensing II.
A team of 18 geography students is preparing to build and launch a weather balloon 20 miles into the sky.
BY IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
Weather permitting, the balloon will lift off from one of several possible launch sites on public land around the city. As the balloon rises, the camera will take hundreds of pictures of Lawrence and Douglas County. The students will use the balloon's flight data for several research projects on remote sensing, mapping, image processing and the effects of high-altitude on photography. Because the mission depends on obtaining good photographs,
The entire apparatus will be about 23 feet long, with the balloon measuring four feet wide and six feet tall, pulling a tail strung with a parachute, radar reflectors and two boxes of electronic equipment. The equipment, which includes GPS trackers, will measure internal and external temperatures, air pressure and the orientation of the contraption. A camera will dangle from the end, pointed downward,
"The cameras worked great," said Kelly Miller, a senior from Waterloo. Ill. "If we can get that quality from the flight it will be amazing."
some team members boarded an airplane on Thursday for a test flight, removing one of the aircraft's windows to experiment with a variety of camera settings and lenses.
Miller said that the vehicle, along with its data, could be destroyed if it lands in Clinton Lake or on Interstate 70. She said Olympus, the camera manufacturer that lent the students two Flagship E-5 cameras, also accepts that possibility and had been promised copyright of any images taken with their equipment.
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Group hopes to end use of fake IDs in Lawrence
ALCOHOL | 3A
The New Traditions Coalition works to promote awareness of alcoholism through new initiatives to stop underage drinking.
TECHNOLOGY | 3A
The future of cars is here
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A guest speaker discusses the prospects of new electric cars.
Classifieds ... 11A
Crossword ... 4A
Cryptoquips ... 4A
Opinion ... 5A
Sports ... 12A
Sudoku ... 4A
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